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MONDAY Susan – Sheridan (Window Display Workshop)
TUESDAY Susan – Searcy (TA with merchants)
WEDNESDAY Cary – Rural Development Conference, Hot Springs, panelist; Greg, Heber Springs (
THURSDAY staff planning – out of the office
FRIDAY Caroline – annual leave
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IN THIS ISSUE:
CNU Video on Sprawl
Crawfordsville on Facebook
Good Rogers & MSA Press
Malls are Dying
AR Sm. Biz & Micro Lending Report
Nominations Sought for Volunteer Community of the Year
2 Grant Opportunities
NMSC Looking for Help
Congress for New Urbanism Video on Sprawl (highly recommended)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGJt_YXIoJI
Welcome to Facebook, Hometown Crawfordsville:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67031068053#/group.php?sid=882d177dbbcd50f9f85fd65e5c587179&gid=78211383511&ref=search
Good MS Rogers (and MSA) press:
http://www.recordtimes.com/rhtn/News/5179/
Malls are Dying (we knew this)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124294047987244803.html
- Today’s trivia: What was the last mall opened in America? – Turtle Creek in Jonesboro
AR Small Business & Micro Lending Report (pdf document)
http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/bk_08tar.pdf
Nominations Sought for Volunteer Community of the Year Awards:
Each year, the Arkansas Department of Human Services Division of Volunteerism partners with the Governor’s Office and the Arkansas Municipal League to sponsor the Arkansas Volunteer Community of the Year Awards. Nominations for the 2009 Community of the Year will be accepted beginning July 1, 2009. The nomination deadline is September 30, 2009.
Twelve communities throughout the state will receive recognition for their volunteer efforts. A committee of citizens who represent a cross section of the state population will select winning communities. The awards will be presented at the Arkansas Municipal League Winter Conference.
Recipients of the 2008 awards were Bay, Bella Vista, Bryant, Clarkridge, Clarksville, Crossett, El Dorado, Fort Smith, Heber Springs, Marked Tree, Maumelle, and Van Buren. Volunteers in these communities donate thousands of hours yearly toward supporting on-going activities and needs of their fellow citizens.
For a nomination form or more information, visit the DHS Division of Volunteerism’s website: http://www.arkansas.gov/dhs/adov, or contact Rebecca Burton, DHS Division of Volunteerism, P.O. Box 1437, Slot S-230, Little Rock, AR 72203, or call 501- 682-7540.
Grant Opportunity
The James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation will award research grants of up to $25,000 to mid-career professionals who have an academic background, professional experience, and an established identity in historic preservation or related fields including, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, environmental planning, architectural history, and the decorative arts.
The Foundation will also grant the Richard L. Blinder Award, a biennial award of up to $15,000 for the best proposal exploring the preservation of an existing structure, complex of buildings, or genre of building type for use for a cultural purpose.
To learn more about both awards, go to www.fitchfoundation.org.
Applications must be postmarked by September 16, 2009.
Preservation Grants for Libraries and Museums
Institute of Museum and Library Services: American Heritage Preservation Program
The purpose of the American Heritage Preservation Program, an initiative of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in partnership with Bank of America, is to fund the preservation of treasures held in small and mid-sized museums, libraries, and archives throughout the U.S. Grants of up to $3,000 are available for the purpose of preserving specific items, including works of art, artifacts, and historical documents that are in need of conservation. Projects in the following areas are eligible for funding: treatment of library, museum, and archival collections; improvement of collections storage; and environmental improvement of collections. The application deadline is September 15, 2009. Visit the IMLS website to download the grant guidelines.
From the National Main Street Center
With your help, I will bring back the special edition of Christmas in July Network Notes for Main Street News. Does your community have innovative, successful, wild, wacky, unique, (insert other adjective that goes beyond "the usual") retail or special events that bring visitors and customers to your Main Street? Have you figured out how to do something particularly well? Have you used new media to tie in to your holiday promotions? Has your program designed particularly stunning promo pieces? Do you have a secret for getting merchants to stay open late for holiday shoppers? Has your committee developed a great shop local for the holidays campaign?
Please email me (Andrea_Dono at nthp.org) directly a paragraph description or news articles of what your program has done to make Main Street festive and/or lucrative during the biggest shopping season of the year. I just need to know the basics right now - who, what, when, where, why, how. We will print the best ones in the July issue of Main Street News as well as post them online.
Winter holiday promotions other than Christmas that you produce are welcomed as well.
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